toilet rolls 1968 1969 season

[freakypete]

does anyone remember the two ladds who used to pick up the bog rolls that were thrown on to the pitch after we scored during the docs era???

[Larry Duff]

Wasn't you was it? 

There was a certain skill in throwing bog rolls and making them open like streamers before nestling on the back of the net.  You had to open them up about a 3 feet and then it was all down to the wrist action.

My first effort was in the cup replay against Southampton.  From a packed Holte End in  a crowd of 60,000 (and the rest) I took my squashed up Toilet Roll which I had earlier borrowed from Bishop Walsh School Bogs and threw it about 10 yards where it bounced off a tall blokes head half way up the Holte.   

[Dave Clark Five]

There was also a knack to releasing them from the window of trains, particularly The Special. It involved putting your forefingers at either end of the roll after pulling enough paper off to get it going. A whole bog roll would stretch from one end of the train to the other and was quite effective in stations with plenty of passengers on the platform. 

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Was there also at this time a fad of taking walking sticks to matches ? Im sure my brother took one along, he had claret and blue sticky tape round it. Dont think the stewards would let teenagers in the ground now waving walking sticks in the air.

[adrenachrome]

My first personal encounter with this phenomenon was in the home game against Stoke in March 67.

The Stoke fans "took" the Holte and constantly threw them from the back of the stand.

[eamonn]

Wasn't you was it? 

There was a certain skill in throwing bog rolls and making them open like streamers before nestling on the back of the net.  You had to open them up about a 3 feet and then it was all down to the wrist action.

My first effort was in the cup replay against Southampton.  From a packed Holte End in  a crowd of 60,000 (and the rest) I took my squashed up Toilet Roll which I had earlier borrowed from Bishop Walsh School Bogs and threw it about 10 yards where it bounced off a tall blokes head half way up the Holte.   

 

[E I Adio]

I remember those bog roll catcher lads. They carried bin liner type sacks to put them in. They got so skilful in the end that sometimes they could  actually catch the falling bog roll in the sack before it hit the ground.